{"id":11955,"date":"2009-12-27T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/27\/have-you-read-them-all\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T15:41:01","slug":"have-you-read-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/27\/have-you-read-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Have You Read Them All?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a7835b87970b-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0240\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a7835b87970b \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0120a7835b87970b-320wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> It is not unusual for a non-bookman, upon entering the book-lined domicile of a bookman, to crack, &quot;Have you read them all?&quot;&#0160; The quip&#0160;smacks of a veiled accusation of hypocrisy, the suggestion being that the bookman is making a false show of an erudition and well-readedness&#0160;the&#0160;likes of which &#0160;he does not possess.&#0160; I invariably reply, &quot;This is no show library, this is a working library.&quot;&#0160; That tends to shut &#39;em up.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A nephew gave me a coffee cup inscribed thusly: &quot;A room without books is like a body without&#0160;a soul.&quot;&#0160; The attribution was to Cicero, but one learns to take such attributions <em>cum grano salis<\/em>.&#0160;&#0160; Whatever the quotation&#39;s source, it sums up the matter well.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not unusual for a non-bookman, upon entering the book-lined domicile of a bookman, to crack, &quot;Have you read them all?&quot;&#0160; The quip&#0160;smacks of a veiled accusation of hypocrisy, the suggestion being that the bookman is making a false show of an erudition and well-readedness&#0160;the&#0160;likes of which &#0160;he does not possess.&#0160; I invariably reply, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/27\/have-you-read-them-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Have You Read Them All?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}